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2024 working on cuttings	2024 April Newsletter Educaton room; Native Plant volunteers - call in any Tuesday or Friday morning between 8 and 12; Pampas Grass - pest weed;  Garigal Landcare volunteers have been doing magnificent work removing Pampas Grass. Banksia aemula is a valued plant and Nursery volunteers have been propagating them.
Volunteer weeders	2024 March Newsletter Meeting March 2 with speaker, Mark Tozer, an ecologist;  Volunteers clearing the Frog Hollow; Information about echidnas; Sericornis frontalis - White-browed Scrubwren;  Committees formed in 1900 to help stamp out the plague.
Command Post	2024 February newsletter North Head echidna survey; North Head Bush regeneration; Observation and Command Posts; In the year 1900, Bubonic Plague took several people who were subsequently buried on North Head.
Avenue of Honour Photo: Jan Ritchie	January 2024 A Heritage Road at North Head?  During one of our Foundation's spring wildflower walks for community members led by Geoff and Judy Lambert, the group found themselves on the wide path built along the coastal side of the headland’s dune system. marked on the map as the Avenue of Honour. The group was surprised to hear one of the participants exclaim with reverence that they were walking on a ‘Telford road’! What, you may ask, is a Telford road? And also, what actually is an Avenue of Honour?

Katie with her painting	December 2023 Thank you, Tom Hazell for the wonderful Nov 27 talk on Birds of Manly Lagoon; New volunteers needed; Farewell to volunteer Katie Meyer who has contributed to our display area and has provided environmental information to visitors over many years; survey of native plants; James Griffen, MP - speech to parliament recognising the contribution of NHSF volunteers over the years - especially Jenny Wilson who writes these newsletters; article from Sydney Morning Herald, from March 1901; Death in 1901 from plague of James Ernest Derrington.
Python	November 2023 Fire bans on North Head; Need for more volunteers in Bandicoot Heaven; repair of North Fort sandstone wall; Pythons on North Head; Third Cemetery - a death from bubonic plague in 1901
Echidna	October 2023 New volunteers needed; Native Plant Nursery; Q-Station Open Day; North Head Sanctuary Master Plan - have your say; Thank you Dr Helen Smith for the fascinating talk about Spider Silk on Sept 16; Echidna seen in the sandstone wall; Back in Time - an article written in 1933; The Third Cemetery - the Bubonic Plague of 1900.
Spring flowers	September 2023 Annual General Meeting - September 16, 2023 - at 2pm in Bandicoot Heaven; The speaker will be Dr Helen Smith, Technical Officer in the Arachnology section of the Australian Museum and her topic will be Spiders and their Silky Secrets;  New volunteers needed; Spring Wildflower Walks; Open Day at the Quarantine Station - Sunday September 10, 2023; Philotheca buxifolia; Red Cross supported people returning from the First World War in 1919. Some died in Quarantine.
Volunteer weeders	August 2023 Annual General Meeting - September 16, 2023 - at 2pm in Bandicoot Heaven; The speaker will be Dr Helen Smith, Technical Officer in the Arachnology section of the Australian Museum and her topic will be Spiders and their Silky Secrets; Volunteers plant specimens from our Nursery at North Head and pull out weeds; Spring Wildflower Walks; Open Day at the Quarantine Station - Sunday September 10, 2023; Pterostylis concinna; Whisky Grass - a weed;  The Plague cases at Quarantine Station in 1900.
New Lookout	July 2023 Education Room and Nursery - volunteers invited to help on either of these activities; Back in time - 1900 when there was the plague in Sydney; New Lookouts at North Head together with revegetated surrounds;  The demise of the Christmas Beetles; Third Cemetery - William Brown died from the Plague; Northern Beaches Council ‘Caring for our Bushland’ 2023 EcoAward winner - Jenny Wilson.
St Andrews Cross Spider	June 2023 General Meeting June 17 at 2pm in Building 20 - Speaker: Wendy Grimm BSc, MPhil from Australian Plants Society with the topic being Orchids; Spiders often seen on North Head; Nursery Group volunteers; Remembering Rory Linsky who volunteered with our organisation; Third Cemetery - plague victims who died in Quarantine in 1900AD.
Igloo with new cover	May 2023 Igloo cover replaced; Echidna; Processionary caterpillars; Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden walks; Third Cemetery - 1900 - bubonic plague deaths of William Hayden and Walter Haynes - both were in their early 20s.
Fleabane	April 2023 Thank you, John Dengate; Plants supplied by our volunteers for North Fort upgrade; Fleabane - a weed; Acacia terminalis; Aboriginal place names; Third Cemetery - plague victims in 1900
Gift of $10,000 from Max. Matthew, Max and Jenny	March 2023 Special General Meeting on March 18 to vote on changes to the constitution and the speaker will be John Dengate talking about Northern Beaches' Wildlife; Max Player has donated $10,000 to our organisation for nature conservation; Stage 1 of the Lookout upgrades is complete; A liking for lichens article; "Species at Risk" art exhibition at The Botanical Gardens Mar 18 - Apr 2;
Casualty ward	February 2023 Education Room; Plant Nursery; Defence of Sydney; Underground facilities in the tunnel system at North Head including a Casualty Ward: Third Cemetery - during the Plague, burials in graves numbered 97-100; Haemodorum planifolium
Rabbit	January 2023 In December, Peter Mitchell gave a fascinating talk on the geology of North Head. Click here for a summary of Peter's talk; Rabbits; Echidna;Young Adult Hospice on North Head; Platysace lanceolata,Third Cemetery - Plague victims
New Holland Honeyeater	December 2022 General meeting Dec 3 - Dr Peter Mitchell speaking about the geology of North head; Echidna survey; Native Plant Nursery; New Holland Honeyeater; Surveying wild orchids; Orchid photos; North Head Scenic Lookout; Cryptostylis subulata; Third Cemetery - smallpox 1884
Frog Spawn	November 2022 General Meeting Dec 3, at 2pm in Building 20; Dr Peter Mitchell will speak about the geology of North Head; Dr Judy Lambert achieves an Eco Award from Northern Beaches Council - Well done Judy!; Identifying frogs; Third Cemetery - John Gaynor and his contacts were quarantined at North Head in April 1900 due to Bubonic Plague.  His contacts were released but John died.
Oval planted area	October 2022 Native Plant Nursery planted area next to oval - many flowering plants; Echidna survey; Australian Wildlife Conservancy news; Thelionema umbellatum; Kennedia rubicunda; Third Cemetery - report from 1919 during Influenza epidemic where restrictions impacted Anzac Day celebrations.
Lapwing chick	September 2022 Annual General Meeting - Sept 17 at which Ann Jackson will speak about Medidivert which is a system for reducing waste from medical facilities; Spring Wildflower walks - Monday 3 Oct 2pm: Sunday 9 Oct:10am, Wed 12 Oct: 10am; Lapwing chicks have hatched; The curiosities behind what we can see in Nature; North Head Scenic area carparks, pathways and bus stop are now open; New Lookouts are under construction; Third Cemetery - Joseph Stock died of influenza.
Echidna	August 2022 Annual General Meeting Sept 17 - Anne Jackson will talk about the MediDivert  system for managing hospital waste; Native Plant nursery supplied over 800 plants to NPWS for the renewed viewing areas on North Head; Spring Flower Walks; Echidna survey on North Head; Third Cemetery - death from Flu; After the burn.
Black Cockatoo	July 2022 Thank you to Tom Keneally for interesting talk in June; Repair of collapsed frog pond bank and planting it out; Upgrades to the Wastewater Treatment Plant; Bondi to Manly Walk - signs erected at North Head; Third Cemetery - deaths from plague in 1900.
Frog	June 2022 Thank you to volunteers; World Environment Day - June 5 - bushcare targetting whisky grass; Meeting on June 18 - speaker Tom Keneally; Q-Station Open Day - June 5; Volunteers welcome in Education Room and Native Plant Nursery; Frogs on North Head; Third Cemetery - Sydney dealing with smallpox
Ants	May 2022 Education Room; Native Plant Nursery - new frog pond; Formication of ants; Follow the leader caterpillars; Third Cemetery - arrival of "Stirlingshire".
Diamond python	April 2022 Thank you to John Faulkner for fascinating talk; Bandicoot Heaven; Native Plant Nursery; Storm damage to planted areas; Hanging Swamp track now open; Tricoryne elatior; Diamond python; Third Cemetery - mistake in record of child death in January 1886.
Bondi to Manly walk	March 2022 General Meeting March 19 - Speaker John Faulkner - Topic Bondi to Manly Walk; Bandicoot Heaven re-opening; Nursery volunteers welcome; Plant Names; Rain impacts on North Head; Frog Pond construction; Third Cemetery - young man, Sydney Burrows, died in 1898.
Annie Egan plaque	February 2022 North Head Scenic Area upgrade; Firemen quarantined at North Head in 1918; Remembering Annie Egan and Elizabeth McGregor, who were nurses died during the Influenza pandemic in 1918; In 1918, there was an appeal for pyjamas needed for people in quarantine; Garden escape - Agapanthus - seen at North Head.
Habitat Pods	January 2022 Native Plant Nursery; North Head Scenic Area update; Habitat Pods for animals after bushfire; Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub now Critically Endangered; Papuan medical students accommodated at the Quarantine Station; North Head Sanctuary Foundation approaching 20 years of action.
Garigal Landcare group	December 2021 Annual General Meeting - Malcolm Fisher speaking about Manly Dam; Nursery visitor - an echidna; Welcome Sparrow; Back in Time - Pandemic in 1919; Garigal Landcare group removes weeds on North Head; North Head Wastewater Treatment Plant installs new equipment; Monotoca elliptica; Third Cemetery - unvaccinated person dies from smallpox.
Australian Painted Lady	November 2021 North Head Sanctuary Foundation Annual General Meeting December 11; Bandicoot Heaven still closed; Vale Christabel Casimir; Upgrade to Scenic Area at North Head in Sydney Harbour National Park; Woollsia pungens - and using Latin names for plants; Vanessa kershawi or Australian Painted Lady; Third Cemetery - John Casey; Flannel Flowers flourish after bushfires
Juvenile Plovers	October 2021 Native plant nursery; "My North Head" by Peter Nash; Birds of North Head; Solanum aviculare; Third Cemetery - baby John Lindsay Christie; retirement of Lindsay Christie; burial of George Mark Burman
Bar-shouldered doves	September 2021 Native plant nursery; Spring is here; Echidnas; Birds of North Head; Controlled burn areas - "before" and "after" photos showing regrowth.
Kookaburras	August 2021 Nursery; Medicine in the Sanctuary; Life in Quarantine; Congratulations to Aunty Fran Bodkin; "Knowing our Country"
Whale	July 2021 Whales seen from North Head; Education Room; Native Plant Nursery; Quorum sensing; Atua and Influenza
Cellular Slime Mould	June 2021 Sanctuary definition; Community consultation on plans for North Head; Education Room; Native Plant Nursery; Fire as a tool in recovery of Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub (ESBS) ecological community; Cool fires versus Hot fires; Cellular Slime Moulds.
Fairfax Lookout	May 2021 Education Room; Native Plant Nursery; North Head Fairfax Lookout area Upgrade; Lone Pine; 1790s Port Jackson 4 pounder; Third Cemetery - "The Makura"; Back in Time - serious allegations about treatment at the Quarantine Station.
Backobourkia	April 2021 Nursery - the pond area after heavy rain; Backobourkia (an orb spider);  About how much earth is moved by an Echidna in a year?; Wolf Spider; Quarantine in 1971; Third Cemetery - Private Robert Fairley
Memorial Walk plaque	March 2021 NHSF AGM on March 13; Education Room opening from March 6 onwards; Nursery group would welcome new volunteers; Garigal Landcare are stepping in to remove weeds from the burn areas and would welcome volunteers; Pimelea curviflora; Memorial Walk; Tunnel Tours now include Plotting Room; Scenic Area upgrade; Third Cemetery - James Cahill
Dinty's house	February 2021 Interpretive centre still closed due to Covid-19; Nursery volunteers are working Tuesdays and Fridays; Carpenter Bee; Family stories from Quarantine Station days living in Dinty's House; 1919 death in Quarantine Station
Nursery volunteers	January 2021 Interpretive centre may open later in January if it is Covid-19 safe; Christmas party for Nursery Volunteers; 135 bus replaced by 161 bus; Echidna research; Natural bushland recovery after fire; Influenza pandemic in 1918 - vaccine rollout.
Domino Cuckoo Bee	December 2020 Native Plant Nursery closed from Dec 22 through to Jan 5, 2021; Regrowth after September fire; Domino Cuckoo Bee; Yellow-tailed black cockatoo;  Wildlife and the fire; Influenza Pandemic 1919
QR Code sign	November 2020 Echidna helps with Asset Protection Zone; Hazard Reduction Burn escapes; Have your say about North Head Sanctuary;  $40.6m for Harbour Trust Heritage Sites; Bushland will recover; Net experiments on North Head; Installation of QR Code signs helping people to get to know our plants.
Regrowth after controlled burn	October 2020 Spring in the Nursery; Controlled burn of bushland; Actinotus helianthi flourishing after fire; Reminiscences of growing up on North Head by John Neil Harris
Obelisk	September 2020 Heavy rain caused flooding in the nursery; Pandorea pandorana; Seeding mosses;  Obelisk with engravings by soldiers who were quarantined in 2018; Acetosa sagittata or Turkey Rhubarb - a weed
Third Cemetery	August 2020 Nursery; Sands under the microscope; Bitou Bush & Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera, subspecies rotundata & monilifera); Back in Time - Parks and Playground Movement report from 1935; Third Cemetery - two nurses, who looked after patients with Influenza, contracted the disease and died.
Black cockatoo	July 2020 Native Plant Nursery; Calyptorhynchus funereus (Black Cockatoo); Imperata cylindrica - not a weed, but a taste of history; Back in Time - stories from Newspapers - Neglected Cemetery in1911 and The Plague in 1900
Female Superb Fairy Wren	June 2020 Education Room (plus front door) repainted; Native Plant Nursery volunteers working but with restrictions due to Covid-19; Birds of North Head; Bird of Paradise Flies; Lantana camara; Back in Time - 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic
Planting 2014   Plants in 2020	May 2020 Native Plant Nursery; Planting in 2014 and what the area looks like in 2020; Photos from North Head; Pampas Grass and its negative impacts; Sydney Morning Herald article from 1930 about the Quarantine Station and its carvings.
Echidna	April 2020 Education room closed but plant identification link provided; Heliotropium amplexicaule - weed; Nursery on "care and maintenance" only due to Covid-19; Eating the wildlife; Book review of "Healings and Burials at Sydney’s North Head" by Lady Jean Duncan Foley; Third Cemetery - Mr Arthur Reid; Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Caper White Butterfly	March 2020 General meeting, March 7 at 2pm - speaker Aunty Fran Bodkin; Native Plant Nursery - plantings and overflowing frog pond during the rain; North Head birdlife; Caper White butterfly; 1939 - Trespasser on North Head military land; Smallpox patients in Quarantine in 1901.
Indigenous dancers performing on North Head on January 26.	February 2020 General meeting, March 7 at 2pm - speaker Aunty Fran Bodkin; Aboriginal use of Grevillea buxifolia; new botanical greeting cards available in Building 20;  Invasion Day ceremony on North Head on January 26; Independent review of Sydney Harbour Federation Trust; Rainfall statistics for North Head; Third Cemetery - plague victims in 1900.
Memorial Walk	January 2020 Manly's 26th Ocean Care Day; Australia's memorial walk; Manly to Bondi Walk; Australian Brush Turkey; Third Cemetery - cases of plague
ICMS volunteers	December 2019 Ocean Care Day - Dec 1; Volunteer with Native Plant Nursery or Education Room; Independent review of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust; Calyptorhynchus funereus - Black Cockatoo; Snake and spider awareness; Mosman High School ‘Environmental Expo’; Volunteer day - students from the International College of Management Sydney.
Plover family	November 2019 Annual General Meeting on November 9 with Colonel Peter Sweeney speaking about military history in Sydney Harbour; Native Plant Nursery has the shade cloth installed for the Summer; Morning tea with Dr Viyanna Leo; Ocean Care Day now part of Ocean Week; Plover chicks; Life as part of Quarantine Station staff family.
Male pardalote	October 2019 Native Plant Nursery; Education Room; North Head Bird photo - pardalote; Annual General Meeting; Guided Wildflower Walks; Styphelia triflora or Five Corners; Wildflower report from 1933; Building 20 now used as "Bandicoot Heaven" - 80 year history; Third Cemetery - smallpox onboard the "Eastern".
Wren feeding on nectar	September 2019  Q Station - Open Day- Life in Quarantine 10am – 2pm, Sunday 15th September;   Wren feeding on nectar of Xanthorrhoea flowers; Imperata cylindrica; Spring Wildflower Walks; Back in Time - housing in early Sydney; North Head is a Botanist’s Heaven with nearly 500 native species of plants.
Recovery after fire	August 2019 Meeting 2pm August 17 - speaker Carole Rollings from Manly Little Penguin Watch; Acianthus fornicatus - a tiny orchid on North Head; 15month post-fire survey; Third Cemetery - Sydney Cecil Pepper, a plague victim
Xanthorrhoea after fire	July 2019 Education room; Mosman High School visit the Nursery; Water in the hanging swamp; Whales seen off North Head; The 135 Stuarts' bus; Third Cemetery - smallpox on the French steamer "Ville de la Ciotat"
Praying Mantis	June 2019 Bandicoot Heaven; Native Plant Nursery; Praying/preying Mantis on a Banksia flower; Donation of equipment to Indigrow; Third Cemetery; Sydney Morning Herald report about the conditions on the immigrant ship "Allanshaw".
Tukey pecks Echidna	May 2019 General Meeting on Saturday May 25; Things you find in Building 20 - our education centre called "Bandicoot Heaven"; Volunteering in the Native Plant Nursery; "My North Head" by Kath Pearce, Turkey pecks Echidna; Building a Bee Motel; Trailer needed to transport Nursery benches
Nursery Group	April 2019 Report from Society for Insect Studies walk held March 9; Echidna rescued from being in a drain;  Celebration event after 20 years of dedicated work by the Nursery Group.
Brush Turkey chick	March 2019 Society for Insect Studies event - March 9, 2019; Brush Turkey chick; Fire and ESBS on North Head - poster presentation at International event in Darling Harbour; "My North Head"; Christmas Bells on North Head; Third Cemetery - Sister Elizabeth McGregor - Part 2
Elizabeth McGregor	February 2019 General meeting Feb 23 - Matthew Taylor speaking about birds of North  Head; Congratulations to Dr Paul Lancaster; "Surviving Influenza at Quarantine Station" talk on March 5 at Sydney Harbour Federation Trust offices; Update on Animal re-introductions in North Head bushland; Avoiding ticks; Vegetation surveying; Third Cemetery - Sister Elizabeth McGregor - Part 1
Tick under microscope	January 2019 Volunteers welcome for Education Room and Nursery; Ocean Care Day; A word about ticks; Cryptostylis erecta; Ecological Society of Australia’s (ESA) Annual Conference; Third Cemetery - Pte Hector Fraser HICKS
Sword Grass Brown Butterfly	December 2018 Ocean Care Day; Native Plant Nursery; Insects of North Head (The Sword Grass Brown Butterfly, Tisiphone abeona, and the White Tussock Moth, Acyphas sp); Back in time - transfer of land; Third Cemetery - deaths from influenza; Committee for 2018 - 2019
Liverwort	November 2018 Annual General Meeting - 2pm on Nov 10; Northern Beaches Council Eco Awards; Triple J - new kid on the airwaves; Spring Wildflower Walks; Liverwort; Brush-turkey App; Third Cemetery - smallpox death in 1914
After the 2018 burn	October 2018 Annual General Meeting - 2pm on Nov 10; Spring Wildflower Walks; Caledenia carnea; Botanical Survey of North Head; After the burn is over ...; Native Plant Nursery; News from the Fire Front; Citizen Science - call for ideas for small projects that could be attempted on North Head; Back in time - a person in quarantine "escaped" and went to the movies in Manly in June 1919.
Boronia ledifolia	September 2018 Spring Wildflower Walks; Boronia ledifolia; After the burn is over ...; Native Plant Nursery; Back in time; Grass Tree gum; Stony Range Botanic Garden Spring Festival; Q-Station 10th Birthday Open Day; Third Cemetery - Italian reservists
Grass trees after fire	August 2018 Spring Wildflower Walks; Native Plant Nursery - Frog Pond area; After the burn - Grass Trees (Xanthorrhoeas) recovering; Back in time - the value placed on Zanthorrhoea resin; North Head - a special cultural place; Third Cemetery - baby died from measles; Stony Range Spring Festival
After the burn	July 2018 General Meeting, July 28, by Wendy Grimm entitled "Pollination – not just the realm of bees!”; Education Room - new display of wildlife; Thank you to Four Seasons Nursery; Wartime life at North Head; Hazard reduction burns on North Head; Third Cemetery - memorial wreaths in 1920
New track	June 2018 Recognising & celebrating Aboriginal culture; Whale Watching Season; New Track on North Head; Back in time; Julie Nettleton’s Triptych; Third Cemetery - deaths from the Makura.
Acacia terminalis	May 2018 Replacing wooden benches in North Head Sanctuary nursery; Enjoying North Head in 1933; Threatened Species Children’s Art Competition 2018 from June 4 to August 3; Third Cemetery - stories of the plague in  April,1900.
Phillip Jones	April 2018 Next general meeting - April 21 - Speaker, Phillip Jones; New walking track; Torres Strait Islander flag; The lungs of a plant;  Third Cemetery - getting permission to erect a tombstone; King George VII carriage?
Horse Sculpture	March 2018 Information Room; Manly Flower Shows from the past; Nursery News; Snake bite in the 21st Century; Bronze Horse Scultpure; Third Cemetery - 100 years since soldiers arrived home from the First World War with influenza.
Discovery Day 2018	February 2018 General Meeting Feb 24 - walk around planted areas; North Head Sanctuary Discovery Day; FrogID; Weed - Anagallis arvensis or Scarlet Pimpernel; Bubonic Plague; North Head Project - art on display at Manly Art Gallery
Visitor to Planted Area	January 2018 North Head Sanctuary Discovery Day; Celebrating 21years; North Head Project; ESBS redefined; next General Meeting Feb 24 will include a walk around our planted areas; Third Cemetery - pneumonic influenza;
Army truck	December 2017 North Head Discovery Day - January 21, 2018; Tears at North Fort; The naming of species; The UAV vegetation survey of North Head;  Third Cemetery - rum and innoculation
Spring Wildflower Walk	November 2017 General Meeting November 25 2pm - speakers Vince and Julia Williams; Ocean Care Day - 3rd December; North Head Project - 8th Dec, 2017 to 18th Feb, 2018 - showcasing the work of 10 artists who are depicting aspects of North Head; North Head Discovery Day - Sun 21 January 2018, 10am – 4pm; more buses for North Head on Sundays and public holidays; Spring Wildflower Walks; airport for North Head?; Third Cemetery - Influenza
Pond area	October 2017 Thank you to Jennifer Anson for a fascinating talk; Cleanup of Pond area; Spring Wildflower walks; After a fire; Third Cemetery - path paved; SS Atua and influenza
Bandicoot	September 2017 Annual General Meeting at 2pm on September 16 - Guest speaker will be Jennifer Anson speaking about "Possums, rodents, bandicoots and dasyurids: Fauna Restoration at North Head Sanctuary"; Thank you Aunty Fran; Spring Wildflower walks; ESBS - changes to the list of species recognised to be endemic to this classification; Third Cemetery - Richard Perry died at North Head but was buried in the Necropolis at Rookwood Cemetery.
2015           2017 Planted area near old gym	August 2017 Nursery group's planting outside the old gymnasium - March 2015 and now (July 2017); Spring Wildflower walks - September and October; Hazard reduction burns planned for North Head;  Third cemetery - Ellie George; Keeping count of people visiting North Head.
Tawny Frogmouth	July 2017 Annual General Meeting - September 16 - 2pm in Building 20 Speaker Jennifer Anson - Topic Re-introductions on North Head; Education Room; Finding a Tawny Frogmouth; Native Plant Nursery; Third Cemetery - in pursuit of the missing headstones
Pygmy Possum	June 2017 General Meeting - 2pm June 10th in Building 20 - guest speaker, Helen Vickers; Nursery people work on the Oval; Walk and Talk - Sunday June 18; Eastern Pygmy Possums back on North Head; Strangled! - the demise of a seedling Eucalyptus camfieldii; Third Cemetery - deaths from smallpox in 1913.
Austracantha minax spider	May 2017 Datura stramonium - nasty weed; Austracantha minax - a spider; Third Cemetery - Margaret Whitehead; John Baptist Adonis’ grave marker is now upright
Yellow-faced whip snake	April 2017 Cats and dogs - threats on North Head; Yellow-faced whip snake; Third Cemetery - more about Jean Baptiste Adonis; Stone masons at work repairing grave stones.
New bush regeneration site	March 2017 March 1 Meeting 7pm in Building 20 - several walking and bush related videos; New bush regeration site; North Fort Road; The other obelisk; Missing headstone found!
Guided walk	January/February 2017 Next meeting March 1 at 7pm will feature local residents; bushwalks led by NHSF for various groups; Native Plant Nursery progress; Rainfall monitoring on North Head; Third Cemetery - consumption claimed 2 lives in 1919; Making crystals an unusual way.
Tawny Frogmouth	December 2016 Education Room; New Brochure; Return of the Tawny Frogmouths; Native Plant Nursery;  Piece be with you; Third Cemetery - bubonic plague
Walk for women	November 2016 Ocean Care Day; Spring Wildflower walks report; Sydney International Walk for Women; Nursery Group; Whisky Grass; Third Cemetery - suicide of Peter Chervin; NO DOGS on North Head
Rockfall Aug 2016	October 2016 Annual General Meeting - 2pm on 8th October - in Building 20; Rock fall on North Head; Water on North Head
Repairing nursery	September 2016 Annual General Meeting - 2pm on 8th October - in Building 20; Nursery - break in and repairs; Boronia ledifolia; Spring Wildflower Walks; Manly Environment Centre celebrates 25yrs - Sept 25 1pm-4pm; Third Cemetery - another plague victim; High Rise buildings for North Head proposed in 1956; Venemous spiders - part 4
Red Back Spider	August 2016 First Cemetery; Barbarian of the bush - Tea-tree; Third Cemetery - Pte Walter McCroanan; Venemous spiders - part 3
Bird of Paradise fly and a Tick	July 2016 Guringai Festival Walk; Venomous spiders - part 2; Bird of Paradise Fly, Ticks, Congratulations to Manly Environment Committee for 25 years service; Third Cemetery - Bubonic Plague
Bank planted 2013	June 2016 Guringai Festival Walk; Frank Langham Burdett – his mark; Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub recommended to be listed as critically endangered; Second Cemetery; Third Cemetery - John Lindsay Christie; Miniature Range building; Venomous spiders - Part 1
Julie Nettleton	May 2016 Next meeting - May 11 at 7pm - speaker, Peter Macinnis; Native Plant nursery invitation for people to join in; Odours at North Head; Little wattlebird; Gold Medal for botanical art for Julie Nettleton; Survey mark at Collins Flat; Thistle Saga Part 4 and other weeds; Third Cemetery - The Preussen - Part 4
Golden Orb Spider	April 2016 General Meeting May 11at 7pm - speaker Peter Mcinnis; Golden Orb Spider; Clean Up at North Head; Protection of North Head's native fauna; Scotch Thistle - part 3; Third Cemetery - Smallpox from The Preussen
William Mills' headstone	March 2016 Clean Up North Head on March 6; Rain Gauge; Thistle Saga - part 2; Third Cemetery - Smallpox - William Mills and others in January 1887
Mystery radar	February 2016 General Meeting February 6; Native Plant Nursery volunteers working on the Oval; Congratulations to July Reizes - 25yrs service; Caustis flexuaosa; Clean Up Australia Day on March 6; Mystery posed Nov 2010 now solved; The Thistle Saga; Third Cemetery - Ferdinand Mercker - small pox
Boxing Day Yacht Race	January 2016 Boxing Day at North Head; My North Head by Alan Ventress; Christmas Bells on North Head; Native Plant Nursery; Third Cemetery - Alfred Eric Brown; Answer to mystery plant photo
Sand on North Head	December 2015 Ocean Care Day on Dec 6; Planting on the Oval; Cryptostylis subulata; Magpie death; Soil changes on North Head over time; 1899 bushfire on North Head; measles and scarlet fever at the Quarantine Station in 1913; Mystery photo from North Head.
Surveying regeneration	November 2015 Invitation to tour Waste Management Plant on Nov 14; Ocean Care Day on Dec 6: North Head Sanctuary Foundation Nursery; Report on Spring Wildflower walks; Plover Chicks are thriving near Bella Vista Café; Cockroaches; Survey of after effects of measures taken to reduce impact of rabbits after fire in Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub areas.
Dr Jennifer Anson	October 2015 Spring Wildflower walks; Planting on the oval to provide cover for bandicoots; Then and Now - planting in Feb 2013 compared with the same bank in September 2015; Round the Twist - part 4; Second phase of introductions of Native bushrats to North Head by Dr Jennifer Anson of The Australian Wildlife Conservancy; Caesia parviflora
Costa Georgiadis visit	September 2015 AGM September 12 at 2pm; Spring Walks; Q Station Community Day; Nursery needs wire coat hangers; Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis visit - to be screened on Sept 19 on ABC at 6:30pm: Patersonia glabrata; Twining and twisting - flora and fauna; Third Cemetery - Ah Yet from the Chinese Liner, Taiyuan.
Antechinus stuartii	August 2015 Spring Walks; The Missing Antechinus holotype; Reporting wildlife deaths; Spiral Shell project; Third Cemetery - 3 Cornelius children
Snail shells	July 2015 Next Meeting July 29 Staff of Waste Water Treatment Plant will talk about odour; The "John Barry" and the mystery of when the Obelisk was built; Spirals in nature; Third Cemetery - measles from on board the "Energia".
Opening visitor centre	June 2015 Whale Watching presentation; Publication of Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub research papers; Opening of SHFT visitor centre at North Fort; Third Cemetery - Java Fever; When was the Obelisk built?; Hibbertia fasciculata; Forgotten engravings on North Head.
Termite (white ant)	May 2015 Whale Watching talk on May 20; The Usefulness of White Ants (termites); Aerial photographs - then and now; Gleichenia microphylla; Third Cemetery - “The Duchess of Argyle”;
Jumping Spider	April 2015 Meeting May 20 - speaker David Jenkins, whale spotter; North Head plant labels; new plantings; congratulations to award recipients; Bandicoot update; Clean Up Australia; Spider webs; Pittosporum revolutum; Third Cemetery - James McNair, Alice and Adelaide Forshaw
WW1 gun being restored	February/March 2015 Jim Frecklington talks about restoration of WW1 gun; Native Plant Nursery; Revegetation after fire; Third Cemetery - James Ernest Derrington; Xyris gracilis
Bandicoot	January 2015 Native Plant Nursery; Education Room; Angophora hispida; Ocean Care Day; North Head Long Nosed Bandicoots; Third Cemetery - Vincent Heaton; Sandstone obelisks
Ant diggings	December 2014 Ocean Care Day; In memory of Sue; Bleached and unbleached sand on North Head; Melaleuca armillaris; New Signage; Plover update; Thank you Katie; Third Cemetery - Samain; Quarantine Station 1921
Spring Walk	November 2014 Next General Meeting Nov 26 at 7pm; Nature Walks for children; Spring Wildflowers; Gonocarpus micranthus; About Ants; Preparing for more study of effects of fire on natural bushland; Third Cemetery - Edward James Fury.
Revegetation at North Fort	October 2014 Next General Meeting - Art of North Head; Prickles and Spikes; Spring - baby birds; Comesperma ericinum; revegetation progress at North Fort near the toilet block; Third Cemetery - Hector Spence
Whale	September 2014 Spring Wildflower Walks on North Head; Manly Hospital site survey; Nursery news; North Head (whale watching) by David Jenkins; Heliochrysum elatum; Family Fun Day at Q Station; Are you a Muggle?; Committee elected at AGM; Third Cemetery - Cecil Pepper
Flying ants	August 2014 Notice of Annual General Meeting; Facilities in Bandicoot Heaven; Petrophile sessilis; Bush Rat reintroduction; Native Plant Nursery; Flying Ants; Third Cemetery - Sidney Pepper; Stoney Range Botanic Gardens Spring Festival
The coach	July 2014 Notice of AGM; Astroloma pinifolium; Congratulations Jim - the coach now in England; Tawny frogmouths; Walking in the rain; Third Cemetery - smallpox 1892, influenza in 1919
Battery	June 2014 Walk and talk on North Head; Military battery and the hanging swamp; Acetosa sagittata or Turkey rhubarb; Third Cemetery - burial of 13 soldiers and 2 nurses; Colonial hospital
Centipede	May 2014 General Meeting; Children's activities; Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo; Centipedes and Millipedes; Phallus indusiatus; Third Cemetery - Pneumonic Plague
Katie at the stall	April 2014 Katie and Kathy represent NHSF at Farmhouse Montessori School; walks for children, Clean up Australia event on North Head; Congratulations to Eco Award winners; Fauna surveys. Plant Nursery news; Black rat; Hibbertia empetrifolia; Spider shots; Third Cemetery - Albert Blake, aged 38
Planting the bank	March 2014 ESBS talk; walks for children; Planting in the bank by Seargeants' Mess; My North Head - Katie Meyer; What's underground at North Head by Geoff Lambert; Back in Time -by Steve Johnson; Goodenia stelligera
Tuesday Nursery Group	January/February 2014 General Meeting; Welcome to new AWC researcher; The Sue Halmagyi Endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub regeneration trial; Native Plant Nursery; Amperea xiphoclada; Ant lions rule; Third Cemetery - Annie Egan
Building 229 collapsed	December 2013 Storm damage to Building 229: The Igloo for North Head Sanctuary Foundation Nursery: comparison of 2010 and 2013 opposite Bandicoot Heaven; Stylidium lineare:Third Cemetery - Alice or Agnes Blendell?: the wreck of the ketch, Emma Matilda
Julie Nettleton	November 2013 NHSF general meeting; Ocean Care Day;Three new walking tracks; Julie Nettleton wins international recognition; Vale Michael Rolfe; Rulingia hermanifolia;Leaves; Spring Wildflower Walks Research studies following fire on North Head
Additions to Nursery	October 2013 Spring walks; Additions to the Nursery: Burchardia umbellata; Navy Fleet Review; Odour investigation at North Head; Smallpox in Manly in 1888 and Dr Watkins fined for negligence
Sundew	September 2013 Spring wildflower walks; AGM report; Nursery igloo up and running; International Fleet review; Caladenia carnea; Odours on North Head; Sundew; Third Cemetery - the Antillian.
Railways on North Head	August 2013 Annual General Meeting; Nursery watering system; ESBS revegetation trial: QS Open Day; Parsonsia straminea; Springs on North Head; Railways on North Head; Stony Range Open Day
Sue with volunteers	July 2013 Tribute to Sue Halmagyi - celebrating her contributions to North Head over the last few years. The photo is of Robyn, Sue, Toni and Janet who were planting out seedlings in the Nursery at the time the photo was taken. Even two weeks before Sue passed away, she was tackling a new project - see photo to the right.
Wall now open	June 2013 Thank you; The effects of fire; AWC missing from North Head; Back in Time; New Walk now that the wall is now open; Native Plant Nursery Igloo is now functional; Third Cemetery - bubonic plague; Scizaea dichotoma
Wall soon to be opened	May 2013 Next General Meeting - May 18 Orchids; Aboriginal Heritage Walk - Jun 22; Climate Watch Walk - Jun 2; Echidna watch; New walk soon to Fairfax Lookout; Xanthosia pilosa; Breakout from Quarantine; Third Cemetery - Thomas Robinson
Toni and Sue	April 2013 Four year celebration; Sue Halmagyi gets an award - well done, Sue!; record of plantings - numbers and areas planted; Glycine microphylla; Clean up Australia Day - a sterling effort; Mary Johnsen nominated for an award for 15yrs service at North Head; Education Centre needs helpers; Climate Watch walk
Cunningham;s skink	March 2013 Clean Up Australia; Welcome swallows; Climate Watch Walk; Cunningham's Skink; bug eats spider; Scott Pentland - military heritage talk; Third Cemetery - Ebenezer John Wakeham; Weed - Scotch Thistle
Bandicoot Heaven	February 2013 Native Plant Nursery; Bandicoot Heaven - volunteering; North Head - Michael Rolfe; Third Cemetery - Edmund Thurlow; Old Hoard of Sovereigns; Regrowth after fire; Xanthorrhoea flowering
Cemetery - Mrs de Sturler	January 2013 Nursery news; Tribute to Peter Caldwell; Echidna survey; Third Cemetery - Madam de Sturler; Leptospermum juniperinum; Ocean Care Day; Xanthorrhoea regrowth after fire
10 year celebration	December 2012 10 year celebration of North Head Sanctuary Foundation; Ocean Care Day; My North Head by Janet Fish; Third Cemetery - World War I returnees; Billardia scandens
Spring walk	November 2012 10yr celebration; Splendour of Spring; planting on the oval; Aunty Fran talk available online; North Fort Memorial dedication; Ocean Care Day; Blue Fish burn revelation; Calochilus; Third Cemetery - Chinese burial; echidna
Controlled burn	October 2012 Hazard reduction burns; whale watching; Hibbertia diffusa; Third Cemetery - Francis Jackson; research taking place after the burns
Duck family on hanging swamp	September 2012 Spring walks; Leucopogon ericoides;  duck family on hanging swamp; The Bad Old Days; New commitee; Third Cemetery - John O'Neill; 1898 construction of sewer pipes and pathway from Manly to Shelly Beach.
James Miller Wilson	August 2012 AGM - speaker Fran Bodkin; Spring bushwalks; Patersonia sericea; a day in the life of a volunteer; Third Cemetery - James Miller Wilson, aged 7; volunteer to help with bandicoots; History 1933-5 - North Head designated as a wildflower garden but then needed for defence
Nursery group farewell	July 2012 AGM 7pm Aug 14; Memberships due; Spring Wildflower Walks; North Head Sanctuary Champions; Childcare Centre; Acacia myrtifolia; Climate Watch Walks; Third Cemetery - Joseph Franklin Jun; Farewell Sue
Bubonic plague victim	June 2012 Funding for new research project; Author talk at Manly Art Gallery; Acacia suaveolens; Farewell from one of our volunteers; Planting Day in June; Walls of North Head; Third Cemetery - William James Harden
Is it oil?	May 2012 Speaker - May 19 - Insects; bandicoot tracking; climate watch; 3rd Cemetery C.W.Smart; North Fort; Is it oil on the water?; Cassytha species
Echidna on North Head	April 2012 Weeding day 16th April; Café at North Fort to open 5th April; Eco awards for Mary Johnsen and Peter Nash; Climate Watch walks; Echidna; Fires on North Head in 1931; 3rd Cemetery - Richard W. Smith, Aseroe rubra.
Signpost near arch	March 2012 Signpost at Blue Fish Rd to North Head Sanctuary; Xanthorrhoea seedlings; Climate Watch Walk Mar 4; Planting Day Mar 11; Childcare Centre comments due; Fire in 1936; Third Cemetery - Alice Lawler; Themeda australis
Weeding the oval	January/February 2012 World Wetlands Day Walk Feb 2; Official opening of Bandicoot Heaven; Weeding Day Feb 5; Planting Day Feb 16 4:30pm followed by General Meeting Feb 16 7pm; Weeding on oval Nov 2011;Third Cemetery; Dampiera Stricta
Girl guides listening to Kathy Ridge	December 2011 Official opening of Bandicoot Heaven; Girl Guides visit North Head; Ocean Care Day; Hakea dactyloides
Cubs listening to Geoff Lambert	November 2011 "Orchids of North Head" in Education Room on November 12; New card designs; hundreds of cubs on North Head; Plantings; Ocean Care Day Dec 4; Walks; Third Cemetery - Thomas Dudley; Erythrorchis cassythoides
George Malakwen	October 2011 Congratulations - awards, new baby; Spring Wildflower Walks; Report from conference; Speakers included George Malakwen; Building 20 open; QS Open Day; Third Cemetery - suicide; "Bag It" film; Climate Watch Walk; Olearia tomentosa
Building 20 before refit	September 2011 President Judy Lambert steps down; International conference; Spring Wildflower Walks; Stony Range Fair; Refit of Building 20: Botanical artist chat; Lasiopetalum rufum; Fire on North Head; Farewell Nelika
Rain damage and flooding	Aug 2011 AGM 13 Aug 2pm Julie Nettleton will display her work; thank you volunteers from the past year; International Conference 8-11 Sep; Fire management by Aboriginal people;  Conospermum longifolium; Floods in Nursery and Education rooms; Third Cemetery - Edward James Edney.
Bandicoot foraging	July 2011 Bandicoots on North Head; AGM, Environmental Conference on North Head; Third Cemetery - J Maley; Botanical drawing exhibition; Education Centre about to move; planting a new area; Monotoca elliptica
Cane toad	June 2011 Third Cemetery - John Madden; D'harawal talk; ESL students; Acacia ulicifolia; Artillery School - "too good for soldiers"; dead cane toad found on North Head
William Menzies' grave	May 2011 NHSF general meeting: Third Cemetery - William Campbell Menzies; rabbits digging in bandicoot nesting area; bandicoot spotlighting; Inspection of Artillery School in 1937; Xanthorrhoea sp
Scenic Drive planting	April 2011 Bandicoots and Banksia Scrub; Q-Station lectures; Walk and Talk by Peter McLaren; Third Cemetery - Nursing Sister Elizabeth McGregor; Sydney NP Plan of Management; Skeleton with typewriter; Planting along Scenic Drive; Platysace linearifolia; News article from 1935
Norfolk Pine	March 2011 Avenue of Honour loop - Norfolk Pine; Q-Station lecture series; Mystery rock shelter; Third Cemetery - 241 people buried there; Platysace lanceolata; progress with planting program; Notes from North Head Sanctuary Foundation planning meeting
Plants next to the gym	February 2011 Planning meeting;planting near the gym;Asparagus densiflorus; bandicoots on the brink; Avenue of Honour; former St Patrick's Seminary; Oplismenus aemulus; Third Cemetery - Edward Kelly
Avenue of Honour	January 2011 Planning meeting; planting; grant to study bandicoot habitats; Ocean Care Day; Summerama at North Head; Sydney Harbour National Park Plan of Management; Avenue of Honour; Hibbertia scandens; Third Cemetery - George Braunton
Navigation marker and Third Cemetry	December 2010 Walk led by Geoff Lambert; Thank you to volunteers; Coastal Connections activity; new planting area near Scenic Drive; Ocean Care Day; Indigenous Health talk at Q-Station; Navigation marker mystery; Thysanotus tuberosus; Third Cemetery - the story of James (Jack) Freeman
Radar on North Head	November 2010 Mystery Walk; Seasons Greetings cards; progress of planted area; North Head news; Radar on North Head; Calytrix tetragona; Q-Station lectures; Third Cemetery - the story of George Hammond
Grave of Annie Egan	October 2010 New cards available; more plantings; Climate Watch; thanks to those who helped with display for Australian Museum; Quarantine Station talks; Pistol range; 3rd Cemetery with story of Annie Egan; make comment on latest proposals for Quarantine Station
Third Cemetery	September 2010 Wildflower walks;Beauty of Biodiversity - art display; Quarantine Station; Year of Biodiversity at Museum; Hospital Picnic Grounds; Third Cemetery
Siân Waythe	August 2010 AGM speaker - Andy Donnelly, Science Partnerships Director EarthWatch Institute; new card designs; North Head Sanctuary Management Plan; Sunday at the Sanctuary; Working Bee; Siân Waythe profile; 1873 shipwreck on North Head
Stone Obelisk	April 2010 "Treasuring our Planet" exhibition, planting mulched area, Cabbage Tree Bay Management Plan and special day, awards for two members, Mystery of stone obelisk
Planting and mulching	March 2010 Geoff Bailey's news, planting report, Profile - Rachel Miller (NPWS ranger), Mystery on North Head - ruined infirmaries - by Geoff Lambert
Planting degraded area	January/February 2010 Geoff Bailey to speak at 24th Feb meeting, weeding day 7th Feb, Sydney Harbour NP Plan of Management due for comment, tawny frogmouth